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high place
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high place
n.
In early Semitic religions, a place of worship built usually on top of a hill.

high place
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) Old Testament a place of idolatrous worship, esp a hilltop


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A number of Biblical scholars have suggested that the bamot may have also functioned as burial sites where specific funerary practices of communion with the dead were carried out.
 
 
 
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